Baribal wrote:

I have updated the timeline with bits from that in the basic rulebook, and shuffled around the primer's sections to improve the reading flow a bit. I'm still pretty sure I haven't mentioned quite a few important or interesting factoids yet, so please do feel free to make suggestions. Also, if people are interested, I can put this on GitHub, so you can suggest via pull requests. EDIT: Actually, I can think of a few things myself already, although I don't know yet how best to jam them into the primer. The major power blocs should be mentioned. In particular, the Autonomist Alliance is not alluded to beyond "Titan was colonized". That brings me to a few questions that I can't answer off the top of my head: * When was Extropia opened, and was that the first major instance of anarcho-capitalism being practiced within EP's timeline? * When did the Anarchists become so powerful? Even with the Fall being an opportunity to proselytize, as many habitat's offsite support structure has fallen away, there must have been some far earlier efforts to spread it, and establish places like Locus? * What exactly is the distinguishing feature between Anarchists and Scum? Is it that Scum practice old economy with outsiders? Or are Scum simply more freewheeling Anarchists?

1. Extropia opened shortly before the Fall, if memory serves correctly. 2. I'm sure there were attempts, but the Fall was the biggest opportunity for many people to get away from the battered inner system factions, who were simply too busy trying to contain the TITAN threat (or were far more interested in attacking each other than they were going after the social rejects of the solar system). 3. The way I understand it, scum tend to travel more around the system, anarchists tend to be more insular and isolated. Not to say that places like Locus make contact with other polities and there aren't anarchists that travel, but as a whole they simply want to be left alone and do their own thing. They don't really have the resources to do much of anything else...unless, again, you're Locus. While the scum could be considered lifestyle anarchists, they don't really have a unifying belief unless it's "do whatever, man". Calling them anarchists to their face would just elicit a shrug; they're not really interested in labels. At least, that's how I portray them anyway. Traveling space hippies with varying levels of eccentric behaviors with no interest in politics outside their own fleet or ship, or preying on other people...unless they're scum pirates, in which case stay away. Unless they're scum cosplaying as pirates. In which case...well, that's up to you at that point.